Word: abyss
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...this is fuel for her new fire. Now the spotlight feels to her like an inferno, and her popularity looks like an abyss. "I traded fame for love," she laments on the CD's opening song, the gently cascading Drowned World/Substitute for Love. On the subdued Nothing Really Matters, she confesses "Looking at my life/It's very clear to me/I lived so selfishly...
...abyss opened for a moment, and black bats flew out. They filled the air with old nightmares, throwbacks to a style of history that the world had been forgetting. The Soviet Union was seized by a sinister anachronism: its dying self. Men with faces the color of a sidewalk talked about a "state of emergency." They rolled in tanks and told stolid lies. The world imagined another totalitarian dusk. If Gorbachev was under arrest, who had possession of the nuclear codes...
...Democracy is about dialogue and action, also courageous participation. You have to push yourself to an abyss--recognize you can make a difference," said West. It was clearly an inspirational message...
...Democracy is about dialogue and action, also courageous participation. You have to push yourself to an abyss--recognize you can make a difference," West said...
...news that Representative Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.) is resigning is disappointing. The Republican Party is losing a rising star to the abyss of private life, and Americans are losing a good chance to knock off Dick Armey (R-Tex.), Newt's sidekick, as majority leader...